“It is not only an affront put upon God, but also a great wrong, to neglect the word of God, and the way He prescribes, and to seek blessedness in temporal things,” says puritan Thomas Manton while preaching on Psalm 119:12.
In an extended “Tuesday with Thomas Manton” let me share all three points [...]
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Manton: choose eternal things over temporal…
Posted in Human nature, Manton, tagged choice, eternal, happiness, life, temporal on July 14, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
Weekly taste of Thomas Manton…
Posted in Christianity, Human nature, Manton, tagged choice, happiness, heaven, Human nature on June 25, 2008 | 1 Comment »
The keen puritan pastor wrote this while preaching on Psalm 119:5 —
“Wicked men may desire their own happiness, though not upon God’s terms. …Every man would be blessed, and go to heaven, if it were left up to his option and choice; he likes the END, but not the MEANS. There was not a [...]
God’s choice of believers
Posted in Christianity, Spurgeon, tagged choice, election, Spurgeon on April 10, 2006 | Leave a Comment »
A favorite Spurgeon quotation, from book two of his Lectures to My Students, is about the doctrine of election. Spurgeon says, “I believe the doctrine of election, because I am quite sure that if God had not chosen me I should never have chosen him; and I am sure he chose me before I [...]
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